With Thanksgiving fresh in mind (and stomach), I was reminded recently that the Puritans’ idea of religious liberty was such that, after they settled Massachusetts, the next two American colonies were created for the purpose of–yes, religious liberty. Of the kind not allowed in Massachusetts. Meanwhile, they were burning witches at the stake in the […]
Bob Geary
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JimBlackMustGo.com
“Why is everyone so scared to say the obvious?” a Raleigh Democrat asks. “Jim Black should resign now.” But Joe Sinsheimer isn’t just saying it, he’s saying it loud, if you will, with his new Web site JimBlackMustGo.com. Less than a week old, it was closing in on 70,000 hits as of Tuesday morning, which […]
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Chuck and Laura Richardson
In the summer of 2003, Chuck and Laura Richardson bicycled across the United States for the cause of fighting world hunger. They raised about $6,000. This summer, they did it again. They raised $38,000. They plan to do it next summer and the summer after that.
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Raleigh’s new downtown: 42 floors, Capitol view?
It’s not easy for me to say this, but the fantastic unfolding of events in Raleigh in the scant two weeks since the 42-story skyscraper at Crabtree Valley was approved forces me to admit that I was wrong when I criticized that project. Oh, sure, dozens of you have told me I was right about […]
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Diversity wins on Wake board
Victories by Lori Millberg (District 1) and Eleanor Goettee (District 9) in the Wake County Board of Education runoffs last Tuesday cemented the school board’s pro-diversity policy in place, probably for at least four more years. That fact, no doubt, helped cue the decision of Superintendent Bill McNeal, the 2004 National Superintendent of the Year, […]
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John’s ‘fessing up on Iraq
R>eaders of the Indy, or our nascent blog called “dent” (www.indyweekblogs.com/ dent) or of OrangePolitics.org, the blog we got it from, weren’t surprised to see John Edwards’ “The Right Way in Iraq” column on Sunday in the Washington Post, also known as his “I was wrong” column. We all had the heads-up about it from […]
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A job for the governor
Pick something the government should do. I’ll take mental-health care. That puts me on the same team with Dr. Assad Meymandi, the Raleigh psychiatrist and practicing Republican, as well as state Rep. Jennifer Weiss, the good Cary Democrat. Not to mention Republican Joe Bryan, the Wake County Commissioners chair, and Democratic state Rep. Deborah Ross, […]
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Not on the up and up
In Raleigh politics, we’ve gone from feast to famine in, what, just three weeks? On Oct. 11, we were celebrating the re-election of Mayor Charles Meeker and the election of Russ Stephenson and Joyce Kekas to the at-large City Council seats. Then last Tuesday, we were treated to the spectacle of our city Planning Commission […]
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Elizabeth Edwards: Blogger
Former U.S. Senator John Edwards, the 2004 Democratic vice presidential nominee, now acknowledges that he made a mistake by voting to give President Bush the authority to invade Iraq. How do we know this? We got it straight from his wife, Elizabeth, who passed along that information in a note posted on the OrangePolitics.org blog […]
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Price, Miller call for Iraq exit plan
All summer, Congressmen David Price and Brad Miller said we were wrong to invade Iraq and acknowledged that our continuing presence there was fueling the insurgent forces; but they drew up short of demanding that the United States set a timetable for getting out. But Tuesday evening, as we went to press, the two Triangle […]
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